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Quotes by Writer
"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."
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"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical."
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"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."
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"When your car needs gas, you go to a gas station and get back on the road. You don't stay at the gas station for the rest of your life. Learn to rest and never to quit. Remember this while you journey through life."
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"When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer."
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"Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion."
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"My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are."
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"In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives."
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"There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples."
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"Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure."
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"Try this:Wake up and say thank you to the universe for all the good things you have in your life. Appreciate."
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"I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me."
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"Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness."
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"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"
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"I've been at some pains to tell you about myself because among other reasons I think we should know who our enemies are. I've known people to spend their lives nursing a hatred of phantoms and they were not happy people."
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"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story."
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"There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance."
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"The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have."
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"When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude."
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"Do you know what guerrillas often say? They claim that their rebellions are invulnerable to economic warfare because they have no economy, that they are parasitic on those they would overthrow. The fools merely fail to access the coin in which they must inevitably pay. The pattern is inexorable in its degenerative failures. You see it repeated in the systems of slavery, of welfare states, of caste-ridden religions, of socializing bureaucracies -- in any system in which creates and maintains dependencies. Too long a parasite and you cannot exist without a host."
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"But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry (of life) will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge of the world that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate."
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"Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised."
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"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong."
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"If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off."
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"Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition."
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"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."
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"God! when you think of all the things you could do and yet somehow never do! All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn't come fast enough. Instead of being open, you're closed up tight. Thats's the worst sin of all - the sin of omission."
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"Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over."
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